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| Keywords: StateLibQld 2 182083 Brewer and politician Patrick Perkins, 1879.jpg en Brewer and politician Patrick Perkins 1879 Patrick Perkins was born on 10 October 1838 at Cashel County Tipperary Ireland second son of Thomas Perkins farmer and his wife Ellen née Gooley Educated at the local National school he migrated to Victoria in 1855 with his family Successful on the Ballarat and Bendigo goldfields he and his brother Thomas 1841-1876 as partners acquired a share in the Reedy Creek mine for £8000 and later opened a store and brewing business at Castlemaine In 1866 Perkins visited Queensland and opened the Toowoomba Brewery in 1869 Its operations were extended to Brisbane where 'Castlemaine XXXX' ale soon won repute and a large following In 1876 he settled in Brisbane and became involved in real estate mining brewing and hotel speculations In 1888 with McIlwraith and Morehead he floated Perkins Co a large brewing and hotel business Unlike others Perkins was astute and ruthless and disposed of most of his shares before the firm struck financial difficulties Retribution followed when he joined his political associates in speculating heavily in Mount Morgan shares 9104 in 1892 and hotel properties By then his overdraft at the Queensland National Bank £99 485 was one of the largest in the colony and the securities lodged were then worth scarcely half this debt By 1898 he was even unable to pay an £8000 call on his 20 per cent share in R M Collins's and Thomas McIlwraith's North Australian Pastoral Co In his last years he was almost impoverished Perkins had entered the Legislative Assembly on 1 May 1877 as member for Aubigny a Darling Downs constituency Unseated for election irregularities in 1884 he surprisingly won Cambooya in the Nationalist sweep of 1888 He wisely refrained from contesting that electorate in 1893 and was appointed on 23 May to the Legislative Council where he retained his seat until 1901 1879 handle 10462/deriv/124903 Item is held by John Oxley Library State Library of Queensland Unidentified PD-Australia StateLibQld-License Black and white photographs Politicians of Queensland Portraits of Queensland Workers in Australia 1879 in Queensland Brewers from Australia Images from the State Library of Queensland | ||||
